QuickStart Guide to Game Physics: Bring Your Games To Life With Physics

QuickStart Guide to Game Physics: Bring Your Games To Life With Physics

Bring Your Games to Life with Physics—No Math PhD Required! Ever played a game where jumps felt floaty or collisions lacked impact? That’s what happens when physics is missing. This fast-paced guide shows you how to inject movement, weight, and realism into your games—without drowning in equations. Written in a friendly, code-first style for beginners, it helps you build powerful simulations from the ground up. Inside, you’ll learn: Why physics is the secret sauce behind immersive gameplay - How to build a basic physics engine in under 20 lines of pseudo-code - Core concepts like motion, forces, collisions, and responses—explained clearly - How to level up from 2D to 3D with mass, inertia, torque, and stability tricks - Smart optimizations and GPU tips to keep things fast and fluid - How engines like Unity and Unreal apply these principles in the real world Whether you're a hobbyist, indie dev, student, or just curious how games really work, this book is your hands-on toolkit. You'll learn by coding, testing, and tweaking simple examples that build into surprisingly robust systems. Don’t just make games that look good—make games that feel